Re: request for help for research from Guatemala

[James]

On 03/11/2010 21:20, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> > My reply was really aimed at other lilypond developers -- I wanted
> > to discourage developers from taking it seriously and wasting half
> > an hour helpfully describing stuff in an email to such a student.
>
> I think it should up to those developers to decide whether such time
> is 'wasted'.

Yes that's true.

But I also happen to think it is a often good exercise  (as I was the 
first one to answer) at least from my own point of view as by answering 
that question I now know a bit more of the layout of the website (i.e. 
where to find this stuff) also what the best documents probably are and 
perhaps others (who read the thread) may 'learn' something - oo! I 
didn't know that was there or I've never thought of that or even tell me 
my answer was wrong and so on.

We rarely know as much as we think we know. And as has often been 
proven, what 'ought' to be in the manual sometimes isn't even though I 
was damned sure it was there last time I looked.

We all get to learn something, I get to learn where things are on the 
site, others can see if what they thought he answer was is the one I 
said and correct me if I am wrong or take away something from the email, 
so regardless if I've done his homework for him, we can all get 
something out of the 'silly' questions.

Although I think all I did was point him to the manuals to read but also 
the Wiki article (which is NOT our manual) which I happened to find 
quite useful for a good general over view of what the product does.

James